Full-time workers in the electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning had the highest average annual salaries in the United Kingdom in 2023, at approximately 50,528 British pounds, with those working in accommodation and food service professions having the lowest average salary, at 25,522 pounds per year.

Full-time workers in London earned an average weekly salary of 838.9 British pounds a week in 2023, which was by far the highest of any region of the United Kingdom. The region with the lowest average salary was North East England, at 608.4 pounds a week.

Gross weekly and hourly earnings by level of occupation, UK, quarterly, not seasonally adjusted. Labour Force Survey. These are official statistics in development.

In 2024, men in the United Kingdom had a higher average hourly full-time salary than women across most age groups, except for 16 to 17 when women had slightly higher earnings, and among those aged between 18 and 21, earnings were almost the same.

Annual estimates of paid hours worked and earnings for UK employees by sex, and full-time and part-time, by work-based region to local and unitary authority level.

Annual estimates of paid hours worked and earnings for UK employees by sex, and full-time and part-time, by region and two-digit Standard Industrial Classification 2007.

Key information about United Kingdom Monthly Earnings

• United Kingdom Monthly Earnings stood at 3,592 USD in Nov 2024, compared with the previous figure of 3,694 USD in Oct 2024
• UK Monthly Earnings data is updated monthly, available from Jan 2000 to Nov 2024, with an average number of 2,857 USD
• The data reached the an all-time high of 3,707 USD in Sep 2024 and a record low of 1,817 USD in Sep 2000

CEIC calculates Monthly Earnings from Average Weekly Earnings multiplied by 4 and converts it into USD. Office for National Statistics provides Weekly Earnings in local currency. Federal Reserve Board average market Exchange Rate is used for currency conversions.


Further information about United Kingdom Monthly Earnings

• In the latest reports, UK Population reached 68 million people in Dec 2023
• Unemployment Rate of UK dropped to 4 % in Oct 2023
• The country's Labour Force Participation Rate dropped to 63 % in Oct 2023

Real Earnings Excluding Bonuses in the United Kingdom decreased to 2.10 percent in January from 2.40 percent in December of 2024. This dataset includes a chart with historical data for the United Kingdom Real Average Weekly Earnings Excluding Bonuses.

Real Earnings Including Bonuses in the United Kingdom decreased to 1.70 percent in January from 2.70 percent in December of 2024. This dataset includes a chart with historical data for the United Kingdom Real Average Weekly Earnings Including Bonuses.

Average weekly earnings at sector level headline estimates, Great Britain, monthly, seasonally adjusted. Monthly Wages and Salaries Survey.

In 2024, the average full-time hourly wage for men in the United Kingdom was 19.36 British pounds per hour, compared with 17.89 pounds per hour for women.

In 2020 part-time workers in the United Kingdom aged between 16 and 17 had an average weekly salary of just over 61 British pounds a week, compared with part-time workers in their 40s who earned around 232 pounds a week.

Annual estimates of paid hours worked and earnings for UK employees by sex, and full-time and part-time, by age group.

The median annual earnings for full-time employees in the United Kingdom was approximately 37,430 British pounds in 2024, compared with 34,963 pounds in the previous year. At the start of the provided time period, in 1999, the average full-time salary in the UK was 17,803 pounds per year, with median earnings exceeding 20,000 pounds per year in 2002, and 30,000 by 2019. Wages continue to grow faster than inflation in 2024 Between November 2021 and July 2023 inflation was higher than wage growth in the UK, with wages still outpacing inflation as of April 2024. At the peak of the recent wave of high inflation in October 2022, the CPI inflation rate reached a 41-year-high of 11.1 percent, wages were growing much slower at 6.1 percent. Since that peak, inflation remained persistently high for several months, only dropping below double figures in April 2023, when inflation was 8.7 percent, down from 10.1 percent in the previous month. For 2023 as a whole, the average annual rate of inflation was 7.3 percent but is forecast to fall to 2.2 percent in 2024, and 1.5 percent in 2025. Highest and lowest-paid occupations As of 2023, the highest-paid occupation in the UK was that of Chief Executives and Senior Officials, who had an average weekly pay of approximately, 1,576 pounds. By contrast, the lowest-paid occupation that year was that of retail cashiers, and check-out operators, who earned approximately 383 pounds a week. For industry sectors as a whole, people who worked full-time in the electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply sector had the highest average earnings, at 955 pounds a week, compared with 505 pounds a week in the accommodation and food services sector, the lowest average earnings in 2023.

In 2024, it is predicted that average earnings in the United Kingdom will increase by 4.7 percent, compared with a growth rate of 7.6 percent in 2023, the fastest average earnings growth in this time period. By contrast, average earnings did not grow at all in 2020, in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Earnings also grew at the relatively slow rate of 0.2 percent in 2009, shortly after the economic crisis of 2008. Earnings vs inflation Although earnings grew at their fastest pace between 2021 and 2023 in this provided time period, this was offset by the period of very high inflation that occurred alongside it. This reached a peak of 11.1 percent in October 2022, falling to 3.2 percent by March 2024. Despite strong wage growth, the average UK worker saw their earnings fall relative to inflation between November 2021 and May 2023. As of March 2024, weekly wages in the UK were still growing faster than inflation, at two percent for regular pay and 1.7 percent for pay including bonuses. Average annual earnings reach 35,000 pounds in 2023 Full-time employees in the United Kingdom earned an average annual salary of 34,963 British pounds in 2023, compared with just over 33,000 in the previous year. As of this year, men reported higher earnings than women did, with the UK reporting a gender pay gap of 14.3 percent for 2023, compared with 27.5 percent in 1997. Workers in their 40s had the highest average earnings by age group, at approximately 42,260 for men, and 35,250 for women. Although men earned more than women in all age groups, this gap was smallest among workers aged 18 to 21.

Annual data on Civil Service employment in the UK, showing the relationship between the salary of the highest-paid employee and median salary of all employees for each department.

Part-time employees in the United Kingdom earned an average annual salary of 13,910 British pounds in 2024, compared with people who worked full-time who earned around 37,430 pounds a year.

The average annual wages and salaries per households of those in the top decile amounted to approximately 124 thousand British pounds. This is over 20 times more than the average annual wages and salaries per household of those in the bottom decile, which came to approximately 5.4 thousand British pounds.